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SKILLS & PROMPTING · 21 OCTOBER 2026

@Saboo_Shubham_: Google's free agent that watches your other agents

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Google published AQuA (Ambient Quality Agent), an open-source recipe for its Agent Development Kit that runs in a loop over a live agent's logs, groups its silent failures into tracked issues and points to the code to fix. It's developer-level and built for Google Cloud.

Why it mattersIf you have a customer-facing chatbot or agent, someone needs to spot its mistakes before customers do. Even without AQuA, a weekly review of a sample of conversations is the manual version of the same idea.

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